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  1. On 3/26/2024 at 7:28 AM, Middle Buffalo said:

    Ugh. It’s like a curse.

    I grabbed the eclipse shades while I was on the app. I may wear them while I watch.

    Post of the Year!

    I read it three times and just now got the joke. Oh my that's funny s%*# right there. 

  2. Or saying it another way.

    Whether drafting rookies or veterans why would you want a later pick? I don't want to go fourth in the draft, let's go lower after everyone else picks, then we'll take whoever they don't want. We're not that good at development that we can take other team's rejects, develope them, and beat those teams. 

    One thing I'm certain of after fifty years or following this organization, for every time we actually "fix'd 'em" (Loaiza) there are dozens and dozens that really did suck so bad no one else would sign them. 

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  3. 22 hours ago, WhiteSox2023 said:

      Getz could have signed Michael Taylor, a much better player, for $1 million more.  

    Just a general comment on these types of assumptions that we all make. 

    Without information not available to the public we don't know that's true. We don't know if a team made an offer that was rejected. Just looking at what guys signed for with another team doesn't automatically mean they would have played for just any team at that price. 

    I still believe shopping with more options available is better than waiting until the shelves are mostly bare. Especially considering that we generally believe every other team is better at player evaluation. We're going to wait until they all take their pick and somehow believe we're going to do better with the rejects? 

     

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  4. 11 hours ago, WhiteSox2023 said:

    They don’t have enough talent to compete with the players that Getz chose to sign, so what’s the difference?

    Not signing anyone and rushing someone into the lineup. Having to give up the future to field anything today.

    He signed players when he had the most options. They aren't spending any money that will hamper their future. Why wait until you have little or no options? 

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  5. Getz "we don't have enough MLB talent to field a roster."

    JR "what are you going to do?"

    Getz "wait until I can find some bargains during spring training. We'll save a few million dollars. Who cares how good they are?! The strategy is to just take whatever pieces are still around."

     

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  6. 46 minutes ago, WhiteSox2023 said:

    Maybe for targeting and acquiring good players, but Getz didn’t go after any because the Sox aren’t anywhere near a window of competition.  So if you are a bottom feeder team, you can wait for the scraps, especially the guys Getz acquired.  Was any team rushing to sign bums like Maldonado, DeJong, Pillar, Flexen, and most of the bullpen?  What’s the worst that could happen if Getz missed out on a target?  Nothing.  They would still be bad, just as they were/are expected to be.

    The worst that could happen is guys that should be in AAA are rushed to the majors when the team has holes that they waited until the last minute to fill and came up empty. 

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  7. 10 hours ago, WhiteSox2023 said:

    Or the key was for wise GMs to wait for the free agent prices to crash.  Why would Getz be in such a rush to sign anyone when the Sox are a non-contender but the champion Rangers were smart enough to wait it out?  It was not vital for Getz to rush to sign anyone.  We saw Hahn do this all the time in the past as well.  He rushed to sign the low to mid-level free agents that he wanted early, and better players ended up signing for less later on.  Getz did the same this offseason.

    I think if you're a bottom feeder you have to sign folks early. Imagine if the Sox were still in the bidding waiting on an arm. Where do you think the player will go? World Series team or Sox? He waits he has nothing and in a real man. They also have to overpay. 

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  8. 7 hours ago, Milkman delivers said:

    Why the asterisks? Does Soxtalk blur out the word “madness” or something?

    Edit: Nope. So is “madness” one of those unacceptable words now?

    The link was to an article about the NCAA aggressively protecting it's trademark. Much like the NFL protects their "big game". 

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  9. 5 hours ago, LittleHurtCG said:

    I mean the NIL $$$ kind of signaled the end of the "student athlete". You are a professional if you are getting paid to play sports. Doesn't matter if you are 12 year old making mint playing esports or a 20 year old division 1 college football player. 

    Is the logical end major colleges just hiring athletes to represent them? End all eligibility restrictions and just have a  NFL minor league with universities as owners of the franchise? 

     

     

  10. 6 hours ago, South Side Hit Men said:

    I’d like to keep him in Charlotte to get several pressure free starts, in warmer weather, to see how he holds up doing what he hasn’t done since the 2010s with limited inning starts at Tennessee.

    Feels like 2020 Game 3, or rushing Liam after 5 poor IP post cancer spring training/Charlotte rehab innings. 

    They spent six months tearing down the team and assuring 0 games will matter in 2024. Yet between the guys they brought in, their likely opening day roster, and this decision, they continue to operate as they did throughout 2023 as though any of these games matter beyond player evaluation and player development.

    Getz built a 60ish win team. Operate accordingly.

     

    Crochet’s 12 1/3 Innings as a 2020s Starter:

    Only no pressure if he doesn't care about playing in Chicago. 

     

  11. 15 hours ago, South Side Hit Men said:

    The Women's Draw was a complete debacle. https://thespun.com/college-hoops/ncaa-selection-committee-accused-of-screwing-over-iowa

    Iowa was screwed in their bracket, with eight Top 24 teams loaded on their side, whereas the other brackets have five (South Carolina and Southern California) or six (Stanford).

    Potential Hardest 1 Seed Roads to the Final Four:

    • (1) South Carolina (Two Top 11 Teams): Beat the 10th and 11th best teams.
    • (2) Iowa (Three Top 15 teams): Beat the 12th (Princeton in second round), 15th (K State Sweet 16) and 5th best (UCLA) teams.
    • (3) Southern California (One Top 3 Team): 3rd ranked UCONN, also screwed with a 3 seed.
    • (4) Texas (Two Top 13 Teams):  Underseeded 4th ranked 2 seed Stanford and possibly 13th ranked Gonzaga,

    Women's RPI though Sunday:   http://realtimerpi.com/college_Women_basketball_rpi.html

    Top 24 RPI Ranked Teams by Bracket

    • Caitlin Clark Bracket: 1 Iowa (2); 2 UCLA (5); 9 Princeton (12); 7 Creighton (14); 4 Kansas State (15); 3 L. S. U (18); 5 Colorado (19); 10 UNLV (24)
    • Californication Bracket: 3 UCONN (3); 1 Southern California (6); 2 thee Ohio State University (9); 10 Richmond (17); 7 Duke (22)
    • South Carolina Top Overall Seed: 1 South Carolina (1); 4 IU (10); 3 Oregon State (11); 2 Fucking Notre Dame (16); 5 Oklahoma (21)
    • Stanford Bracket: 2 Stanford (4); 1 Texas (7); 3 North Carolina State (8); 4 Gonzaga (13); 6 Tennessee (20); 7 Iowa State (23)

     

    I'll watch the Women's if I can find it until Caitlin is out. Could give a rats ass about the Men's tournaments (NCAA, NIT, CBI, College Insider, et al). I hope the Women's Tournament has higher ratings than the World Series for another year as it did last year.

    Caitlin Clark's Hawkeyes vs. LSU drew 9.9M viewers last year.

    Manfred's piece of metal series drew 9.082M viewers last yearThis World Series was the least-watched World Series in television history.

     

    Do you actually type all that out? Damn, all that formatting. 

  12. 1 minute ago, chw42 said:

    I mean, if they really were offered much better deals and Fields' team said no, then I'd say he got played by David Mulugheta. 

    But I doubt that was really the case. Maybe they were offered slightly better and they decided that sending him to where he wanted to go would make good PR for the team. 

    Plus if he jumped at the first team offering a 4th fans would have thought they could have gotten a 2nd. So he held out hoping the market would improve. Worst case he's your backup.

  13. 2 minutes ago, WhiteSox2023 said:

    I don’t understand this mentality.  The Bears gave Fields 40 games to prove he was a starting QB.  Isn’t that enough?  Some guys are just backups (see Trubisky).  Poles is a moron if he intentionally took less of a return and hurt his own team just to pick a better landing spot for Fields.

    Would you trade him within your division? 

  14. 3 minutes ago, chw42 said:

    I doubt anyone offered a 3rd if he got traded for a 2025 6th. Maybe a 4th or 5th. 

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    Apparently, there was no shortage of interest in the 25-year-old signal-caller, with at least four other teams having inquired with the Bears about a potential Fields trade. However, Fields’s representatives preferred that the QB not be sent to any of those teams and told Chicago he wanted to join the Steelers, according to Ian Rapoport of the NFL Network. 

    The Bears and GM Ryan Poles did right by the former No. 11 pick, sending him to his preferred destination instead of shipping him elsewhere for maximum value. The report did not indicate which other teams were interested in Fields, nor the offers Chicago received.

     

    I tend to think you are correct, but if we believe this report, there was some "competition" for him. 

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